Community Development - Going Local

The E. F. Schumacher Society's educational programs seek to link people, land, and community by building local economies. We envision a decentralized future of local currencies, community land trusts, and human scale technologies.

Since 1974, the ILSR has been working to strengthen communities through the smart utilization of local resources. Our web site offers fantastic public policy resources on a whole range of issues: sustainable agriculture, building materials, energy policy, recycling and deconstruction, and more!!

CELDF was formed to provide free and affordable legal services to community based groups and local governments working to protect their quality of life and the natural environment through building sustainable communities.

The Livability Project helps communities and businesses evolve from the oil economy to local green economies and become more self-reliant by building awareness, developing visionary Livability Maps, and moving from vision to action.

Network of sustainable businesses committed to building local economies and transforming the community economic development field. BALLE is comprised of nearly 60 local networks of independent businesses in a variety of locales across the US and Canada, and represents more than 20,000 entrepreneurs.

The CDFI Coalition is the unified national voice of community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Our mission is to encourage fair access to financial resources for America's underserved people and communities.

An organization of farmers and landowners, mainstreet businesses and bankers, wind developers and component fabricators, educators, renewable energy advocates, and other members of our local communities. We share a desire to develop renewable energy resources in a way that optimizes local economic development in the communities in which we live and work.

Co-op Power is a regional network of local communities creating a multi-class, multi-racial movement for a sustainable and just energy future. We are a consumer-owned energy cooperative serving New York and New England.

Since its inception in 1999, PBICs mission has been to improve the quality of life in communities through the increase of safe walking and bicycling as a viable means of transportation and physical activity.

The journal of enlightened leadership in community planning, development, and revitalization. Each theme-focused issue offers more than a dozen articles, plus useful resources, on the diverse aspects of community building.

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Peter Evans / Echo Credits provides: Sustainable, Physical Activity Transaction, (PAT), data management and consultancy services:
A Physical Activity Transaction (PAT), business process is defined as: Where an individual does some form of physical activity and thus gains points, or a code for these physical activity actions, thus in turn, an individual can then exchange / transact these points / codes for some form of reward within a business context. (And in the case of the business Echo Credits, the rewards for individuals, are % discounts, upon environmental / sustainable goods / servces: